High School Basketball in Indiana is the stuff of legends. Hollywood even makes movies about it. In small towns and larger cities around the state, from November to March, basketball is king. <br><br>In the town where I grew up, Kokomo (an hour north of Indy), we've had some of the best basketball Indiana has to offer. The players change, the coaches come and go and the Kokomo Wildkats legends continue to grow. The one element that stays the same is our Gym. Indiana boasts some of the largest and most beautiful High School gyms in the country. I think ours is one of the finest. When it's sold out .. and rockin', there's absolutely nothing like it.<br><br>Here are a few shots I took tonight of Kokomo's Memorial Gym. Built in 1949:<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Here is sound from a sectional playoff game which happened here at Memorial Gym:<br><br><embed src="http://homepage.mac.com/barnett112/.Music/h.mp3" width=320 height=25 controller=true autoplay=false<br><br>

Yeah, you gotta' be there to appreciate how overwhelming live sports is. Especially when the whole house is a rockin'! The chi is unbelieveable and the rythmn and the chanting, oh my!<br><br> <blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>"I'm not saying that Macs and Linux boxes are no work, but the work, it seems to me, is focused on the solution at hand, rather than the problem of the moment," — Frank Steele<p><hr></blockquote><p>

They had to close it..someone stole the book! <br><br>Actually...it's kinda sad that they spent all that money on gyms when it could have been used towards paying the teachers more, better academic stuff..etc. We have the problem of poor/bad education in KY, but at least we have the excuse of being poor.<br><br>While basketball is big here too..it's more at the college level. <br><br>

Actually, Indiana spends a fortune on its schools...they spend all of their lottery money on it. If you drive across the state, you constantly come across these huge, new, modern schools that are just gorgeous. They are really commited to education. <br><br>

that's very neat. i love hoops...and, while my attention is largely on college hoops, that gym is nicer than any i played in back in my public school days. i think most people who think of indiana high school basketball, think of hickory high-type gyms packing them in where everyone is one big family and they all know each other...your photo crushes my image of indiana hoops. <br><br>

The image of the tiny Gyms portrayed in Hoosiers is indicative of the smaller schools around the state, and certainly of the High School serving as the inspiration of Hoosier's "Hickory Huskers": Milan High School.<br><br>Kokomo High School is in Indiana's North Central Conference, home of some of the largest High School Gym's in the country. When I was in high school, I'd regularly attend games at Memorial Gym when conference rival New Castle, which included guard Steve Alford on the roster, would play to a packed house.<br><br>

The Gym was built in the mid to late 40's as a memorial to the service men of Kokomo who died in WWII. It's an icon to the community and has been a revenue generator many times over since opening.<br><br>Indiana has a furious love for High School Basketball, but we also have a few small college programs we follow .. Indiana University in Bloomington, Purdue University in West Lafayette, University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana State University in Terre Haute .. not to mention NCAA Tourney regulars Butler University in Indianapolis, Ball State University in Muncie and Valparaiso University in Valparaiso.<br><br><br>

topeka high school (a few blocks from the capital in topeka, kansas) was this very, very large inner city school that was quite intimidating to visit. the had a good sized gymnasium that was nicknamed the dungeon. when you played in it, the fans sat a ways above the court with the closest seats being about 6 feet above the court. it was a good-sized gym, too...but, "the dungeon" name was enough to creep me out...especially since it was in this building that already looked haunted from the outside.<br><br>here's a glimpse of a bit of the front of the school:<br><br><br><br>oh wait, here is the dungeon in a quicktime panoramic view:<br><a href="http://www.topeka.k12.ks.us/ths/tour/dungeon.html">CLICK</a><br><br>

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